Last month a Sobeys Urban Fresh location on busy Bloor St in Toronto closed its doors. Sobeys reported that they are closing 15 of their smaller format locations in addition to 35 other larger stores across the country.
After walking by the Sobeys store and taking this picture it got me thinking….how are other big boy grocers and Walmart small urban format stores performing?
There was so much hype in the past five years about these big retailers moving into urban....